Dance Second Grade

Dance—Second Grade EALR 1—Dance The student understands and applies arts knowledge and skills in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts. Component 1.1 Understands and applies dance concepts and vocabulary. GLE: 1.1.1 Recognizes, understands, and applies the elements and vocabulary of dance.

Elements of Dance: Space, Time, Energy/Force  Identifies and demonstrates movement in a variety of directions. (Direction)  Performs movement using a variety of pathways. (Pathway)  Demonstrates locomotor movements at a variety of levels. (Level)  Uses a variety of shapes to express ideas. (Shape)  Moves with a partner in personal and general space. (Place)  Expresses prepositional relationships with a prop or a partner. (Relationships)

Examples:  Names and demonstrates forward, backward, and sideways directions.  Expresses and performs straight, curved, and zigzag pathways.  Demonstrates skip, run, or roll at high-, medium-, and low- levels.  Positions the body to make alphabetic or geometric shapes.  Performs mirroring and shadowing movements with a partner.  Expresses prepositional relationships with a prop or a partner by moving above, below, through, around, and between.

GLE: 1.1.2 Recognizes, understands, and applies the elements and vocabulary of dance.

Elements of Dance: Space, Time, Energy/Force  Demonstrates movement at fast, medium, and slow tempos. (Tempo)  Demonstrates a pattern of changing movements. (Rhythm/Pattern)

Examples:  Uses movement to demonstrate fast, medium, and slow tempos.  Performs eight counts of skipping followed by eight counts of jumping. (Pattern)

GLE: 1.1.3 Recognizes, understands, and applies the elements and vocabulary EALR 2—Dance The student uses the artistic processes of creating, performing/presenting, and responding to demonstrate thinking skills in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts. Component Applies a creative process to dance. (Identifies, explores, gathers, interprets, uses, implements, reflects, refines, and 2.1 presents/performs) GLE: 2.1.1 Applies a creative process to dance.

 Demonstrates a creative process: o Improvises by using the elements of dance (space, time, and energy/force) to create, experience, and discover dance. o Gathers and interprets information to create dances. o Presents dances to others.

Examples:  Explores possible solutions to a given problem of movement when preparing a dance.  Discusses with a partner ways to change a movement phrase.

Component Applies a performance and/or presentation process to dance. (Identifies, selects, analyzes, interprets, rehearses, adjusts, refines, 2.2 presents, produces, reflects, and self-evaluates) GLE: 2.2.1 Applies a performance and/or presentation process to dance.

 Demonstrates a performance process: o Rehearses a dance for a performance. o Presents a dance by performing it.

Examples:  Selects, rehearses, and performs a solution to a given problem of movement.  Rehearses with a partner the movements of a cultural dance.

Component Applies a responding process to a performance and/or presentation of dance. (Engages, describes, analyzes, interprets, 2.3 and evaluates) GLE: 2.3.1 Applies a responding process to dance.

 Demonstrates a responding process: o Engages the senses actively and purposefully while experiencing dance. o Describes what is seen, felt, and/or heard when responding to dance. o Interprets meaning based on personal experiences and knowledge.

Examples: EALR 3—Dance The student communicates through the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts). Component 3.1 Uses dance to express feelings and present ideas. GLE: 3.1.1 Remembers and understands that dance expresses feelings and presents ideas.

 Improvises a dance that expresses feelings and presents ideas.

Examples:  Uses the elements of dance to convey addition and subtraction.  Improvises the movements of animals that inhabit different levels of a rain forest.

Component 3.2 Uses dance to communicate for a specific purpose. GLE: 3.2.1 Uses dance to communicate for a specific purpose.

 Uses the elements of dance to communicate for a specific purpose.  Improvises a dance that communicates for a specific purpose.  Performs a dance that communicates for a given purpose.  Describes a dance that communicates for a given purpose.

Example:  Performs a folk dance to communicate tradition. Component Develops personal aesthetic criteria to communicate artistic 3.3 choices in dance. GLE: 3.3.1 Remembers how personal aesthetic criteria influence artistic choices in dance.

 Recognizes his/her own positive response to choices of movement.

Example:  Uses compliments to give feedback to peers, such as “I liked the powerful jumps at the end of your dance.” EALR 4—Dance The student makes connections within and across the arts (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts) to other disciplines, life, cultures, and work. Component Demonstrates and analyzes the connections among the arts 4.1 disciplines (dance, music, theatre, and visual arts). GLE: 4.1.1 Remembers and applies skills, concepts, and vocabulary that dance has in common with other arts disciplines.

 Identifies compositional elements that are common throughout the arts disciplines.  Demonstrates skills and processes that are common among the arts disciplines, such as creating, collaborating, practicing, and performing.  Demonstrates how various disciplines can be used to present an idea.  Uses the vocabulary of dance to describe artworks in other arts disciplines.

Examples:  Creates a dance after using a variety of lines to draw a pathway map.  Uses both voice and movement to refine and rehearse a song with choreography.  Performs a dance as part of a staged story.

Component Demonstrates and analyzes the connections among the arts and 4.2 between the arts and other content areas. GLE: 4.2.1 Remembers skills, concepts, and vocabulary that dance has in common with other content areas.

 Explores and identifies concepts common to dance and other content areas.

Examples:  Uses movements to demonstrate the states of matter (solid, liquid, gas).  Uses body shapes and movements to show geometric shapes.

Component Understands how the arts impact and reflect personal choices 4.3 throughout life. GLE: 4.3.1 Understands how dance impacts personal choices, including choices made at home and in school.

 Explains how dance impacts activities and events in the school and community.